I tried, but my boss called me down to the bar about 2 minutes after I logged on. So there I was drinking some Pinot Noir or the other and had to undergo my annual efficiency report. Chat would have been more fun.

Do you know that I drove from Portland to Salem to McMinnville to Seattle and didn't stop at one lousy winery?! I mean I drove right through the northern third of the Willamette Valley!! Life is cruel.

I was out last night. I will be out Sunday too and next Wednesday. The Holidays are in full swing at the Roscoe house. I'll try to slip in if I can sneak it on Sunday.

.....we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. A. Lincoln